So in the "One Week Later" section of this book, we see Carol sitting on the floor of her minicarrier apartment, surrounded by moving boxes and a few pieces of furniture, including a coffee table with what looks like a small bottle of alcohol and a shot glass. The glass is full, as apparently is the bottle. It could be that Carol is supposed to look as if she's staring at it, although it really looks more as if she's just staring into space. We never see her drink it. And later in the book she says "no matter how much I just want to hide in my room and crawl inside a bottle," the implication being that she has not done so. Fair enough, she certainly seems sober throughout the book.
For one thing, why does Carol, an alcoholic, even have a bottle of whatever? (Unless we're to assume that she picked it up, intending to drink, and then didn't?)
But mainly, I hope this isn't a lead-in to an alcoholic storyline, I really do. Her other issues are far more interesting, and going back to that would seem, I don't know, kind of cheap.
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As a recovering alcoholic myself, me too! I'm getting awful sick of the "backsliding alcoholic" storyline - which feels like a cheap way of showing the character's "feet of clay" (as Tammy's and I's Marvel editor puts it).
It was acceptable when Frank Furillo almost backslid on HILL STREET BLUES b/c a recovering alcoholic hero was pretty new then, and it had gained resonance b/c Daniel J. Travanti was public about his own battle with alcoholism. But it's so often mishandled (like Tony Stark's alcoholism in IRON MAN) that it's enough to drive me back to drink.... :pppp
Look, I got an idea: How about a MIGHTY MARVEL 12-STEP TEAM-UP? Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Henry Osborn and Omega Red could try and hold meetings - except they all get pissed off at each other over a stupid misunderstanding, and it ends every episode in a huge superpowered fistfight that accomplishes nothing!
Oh, wait - wasn't that Civil War...? >:)
Best,
Tim Liebe
Dreaded Spouse-Creature of Tamora Pierce - and co-writer of Marvel's WHITE TIGER comic (#6 coming out...eventually....)
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